document for you and you are invited to use it with colleagues. The cloud is made from the story Ableegumooch, The Lazy Rabbit. Brainstorm how to use word clouds for pre reading, during reading, and post reading activities.
Here is a Wordle created from the text of a letter written by Ralph Waldo Emerson to President Martin VanBuren, addressing the injustices being experienced by the Cherokee nation during the time period around the Trail of Tears. Visit the Cherokee Nation Sitefor a wealth of primary sources. How could you use this wordle as a pre-reading prompt for the text of a letter written by Ralph Waldo Emerson? Or perhaps as a post-reading writing prompt?
Word cloud generating tools tagul - has shapes, create an account - words in word cloud are clickable tagxedo - has shapes, no account wordle - no shapes, no account
Helpful utility
Use Jingto capture your wordle, or, save your wordle by using the printscreen button to copy the image to your clipboard and then edit the image in paint or other photo editing program - save as a jpg. Alternate - paste directly into Word or PPT and edit from there using the crop tool (because it is an image). Creating a screenshot and saving a Wordle as a graphic tutorial with screenshots (PDF).
Using Windows 7? Do you know there is a snipping tool available to use? Find it at Start, Programs, Accessories. Use the snipping tool to "grab" your wordle and save it.
Examples:
Word cloud generating tools
tagul - has shapes, create an account - words in word cloud are clickable
tagxedo - has shapes, no account
wordle - no shapes, no account
Helpful utility
Use Jingto capture your wordle, or,
save your wordle by using the printscreen button to copy the image to your clipboard and then edit the image in paint or other photo editing program - save as a jpg. Alternate - paste directly into Word or PPT and edit from there using the crop tool (because it is an image). Creating a screenshot and saving a Wordle as a graphic tutorial with screenshots (PDF).
Using Windows 7? Do you know there is a snipping tool available to use? Find it at Start, Programs, Accessories. Use the snipping tool to "grab" your wordle and save it.
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